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Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental problem. Due to the complexity of real-world scenes and the limitations of 3D scanners, interactive segmentation is currently the only way to cope with all kinds of point clouds. However, interactively segmenting complex and large-scale scenes is very time-consuming. In this paper, we present a novel interactive system for segmenting point cloud scenes. Our system automatically suggests a series of camera views, in which users can conveniently specify segmentation guidance. In this way, users may focus on specifying segmentation hints instead of manually searching for desirable views of unsegmented objects, thus significantly reducing user effort. To achieve this, we introduce a novel view preference model, which is based on a set of dedicated view attributes, with weights learned from a user study. We also introduce support relations for both graph-cut-based segmentation and finding similar objects. Our experiments show that our segmentation technique helps users quickly segment various types of scenes, outperforming alternative methods.
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This work was supported by the Joint NSFC–ISF Research Program (Project No. 61561146393), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 61521002), the Research Grant of Beijing Higher Institution Engineering Research Center, and the Tsinghua–Tencent Joint Laboratory for Internet Innovation Technology. The work was partially supported by grants from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project Nos. CityU113513 and CityU11300615).
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Sheng Yang received his B.S. degree in computer science from Wuhan University in 2014. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in computer science in Tsinghua University. His research interests include computer graphics and point cloud processing.
Jie Xu is a Ph.D. student at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include computer graphics and geometric processing.
Kang Chen received his B.S. degree in computer science from Nanjing University in 2012. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University. His research interests include computer graphics, geometric modeling and processing.
Hongbo Fu is an associate professor in the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2007 and B.S. degree in information sciences from Peking University in 2002. His primary research interests fall in the fields of computer graphics and human computer interaction. He has served as an associate editor of The Visual Computer, Computers & Graphics, and Computer Graphics Forum.
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Yang, S., Xu, J., Chen, K. et al. View suggestion for interactive segmentation of indoor scenes. Comp. Visual Media 3, 131–146 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41095-017-0078-4
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